One of the activities I can do in this time of forced-non-social-contact is bike. That is perfect for me. Aimlessly biking is not my speed, a destination is a motivation. The best motivation is to the farmer that wholesales tulips. Should i die doing this pandemic I can just be laid out on the couch….my …
Monthly Archives: March 2020
What is it with the TP?
Giving the Dutch undo credit, I thought, they won’t horde. They won’t do this crazy run on toilet paper. Wrong. Early on, not because it was needed but to check my hypothesis, I rolled by the paper product shelves in my local grocery store. All Gone. No toilet paper, but there were other products. Dumbfounded. …
These two are ripe for the roller brigade!
Well, well, well
Will wonders never cease. If you encounter me having to spend cash, constantly, you would have heard me bemoan the fact. I prefer to pay with a credit card. There are incentives to pay with a card, most notably travel points. If one keeps current monthly it is like cash. Every where in smaller cities …
Love in the time….
The Dutch Government is worried, they need to be. The populous travels a lot and hordes pass through Schiphol airport. The government mandate: Social Distancing was sent to every mobile phone holder. To aid in this, the grocery stores decided to have an hour for the ‘old folks’ to do their shopping. This hour is …
200,000 Free Tulips
The Quest began when a friend handed me a newspaper clipping and said “This is something for you!” The clipping told the story that for the past five years, on a specific Saturday, if you showed up on the Dam in Amsterdam you could take home some tulips. A kick-off for Spring by the Tulip …
Boat People
Not the work of FH but another painter from the time period.
Malcolm by Frans
Experience!
The Dutch have been a bit slow in ‘working toward self-quarantine”. To be prudent declined to attend a couple of social events, in order not to be exposed to possible rouge travelers. The societal ‘cops’ have at last caught up. Social events, Concertgebouw concert, movies, writers group. to name but a few, all put on …
Frans & Black
Vincent van Gogh said ‘Frans Hals had 27 shades of black’.